{"id":162562,"date":"2026-02-20T13:29:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T13:29:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/162562\/"},"modified":"2026-02-20T13:29:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T13:29:08","slug":"how-mets-hitting-director-aims-to-keep-lineup-moving-in-right-direction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/162562\/","title":{"rendered":"How Mets&#8217; hitting director aims to keep lineup moving in right direction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jeff Albert was <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/10\/14\/sports\/mets-promote-jeff-albert-to-hitting-coach-after-staff-dismantled\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">named the Mets\u2019 director of major league hitting<\/a> in November following three seasons overseeing the organization\u2019s hitting development in the minor leagues.<\/p>\n<p>A former hitting coach with the Astros and Cardinals, the 45-year-old Albert is part of a revamped Mets\u2019 staff. He spoke to Post Sports+ this week.<\/p>\n<p>Sports+: Why is your title director of major league hitting rather than hitting coach?<\/p>\n<p>JA: There\u2019s so many more things that go on around the offense. There is the traditional hitting coach and the things you are doing in the cage, and that requires a lot of time commitment. And one of the things I think is very strong here is all the departments that are related to hitting. That\u2019s our training room, performance department, strength and conditioning, biomechanics, analysts. I think a big part of my role in this case is to make sure we have alignment and all those things are essentially getting applied well in our area.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jeff Albert was named the Mets\u2019 director of major league hitting in November following three seasons overseeing the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":162563,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[70670,76042,74413,76068,3817,12193,171,173,172,61422,110,45911],"class_list":{"0":"post-162562","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-port-st-lucie","8":"tag-carlos-beltran","9":"tag-carlos-mendoza","10":"tag-inside-the-mets","11":"tag-juan-soto","12":"tag-mlb","13":"tag-new-york-mets","14":"tag-port-st-lucie","15":"tag-port-st-lucie-headlines","16":"tag-port-st-lucie-news","17":"tag-post-sports-newsletters","18":"tag-sports","19":"tag-sports-plus"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162562","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=162562"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162562\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/162563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}